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Table 6 Robustness checks

From: Illegal immigration and media exposure: evidence on individual attitudes

Dependent variable

Pro_lenient_plan dummy

 

Estimation method

Probit

Probit

Probit

Probit

Probit

Probit

 

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

Pickup truck dummy

−0.055c

−0.052c

−0.051c

−0.053c

−0.051c

−0.052c

 

[0.009]

[0.009]

[0.009]

[0.010]

[0.010]

[0.010]

Protestant dummy

−0.065c

−0.058c

−0.046c

−0.040b

  

[0.015]

[0.016]

 

[0.017]

[0.018]

Catholic dummy

−0.061c

−0.050c

−0.043c

−0.035b

  

[0.014]

[0.014]

 

[0.015]

[0.016]

Jewish dummy

−0.014

−0.012

0.011

0.009

  

[0.029]

[0.031]

 

[0.034]

[0.036]

Muslim dummy

−0.001

0.002

0.157

0.193

  

[0.067]

[0.072]

 

[0.127]

[0.137]

Other religion dummy

−0.003

0.002

−0.012

−0.015

  

[0.017]

[0.018]

 

[0.020]

[0.021]

Other Christian religion dummy

−0.077c

−0.069c

−0.051c

−0.044b

  

[0.018]

[0.019]

 

[0.020]

[0.021]

Church attendance

0.026c

0.025c

0.019c

0.017c

  

[0.004]

[0.004]

 

[0.004]

[0.004]

Importance of religion

−0.006

−0.012

0.012

0.009

  

[0.012]

[0.012]

 

[0.012]

[0.013]

ABC dummy

−0.034b

−0.032b

−0.038b

 

[0.014]

[0.015]

[0.015]

   

CNN dummy

−0.089c

−0.091c

−0.095c

 

[0.017]

[0.017]

[0.018]

   

FOX News dummy

−0.094c

−0.091c

−0.098c

 

[0.015]

[0.015]

[0.015]

   

PBS dummy

0.139c

0.131c

0.123c

 

[0.023]

[0.022]

[0.023]

   

NBC dummy

−0.001

0.002

−0.005

 

[0.016]

[0.017]

[0.017]

   

MSNBC dummy

−0.021

−0.017

−0.019

 

[0.021]

[0.021]

[0.022]

   

Other network dummy

0.008

0.015

0.007

 

[0.030]

[0.030]

[0.029]

   

No evening news dummy

−0.040b

−0.043c

−0.050c

 

[0.017]

[0.016]

[0.017]

   

Count of stories on illegal immigration on favorite broadcast

−0.001c

−0.001c

−0.001c

    

[0.000]

[0.000]

[0.000]

Count of stories mentioning immigration, on favorite broadcast

−0.001c

−0.001c

−0.001c

    

[0.000]

[0.000]

[0.000]

Population density (county level)

0.026c

0.027c

0.025c

0.025c

0.022c

0.021c

 

[0.007]

[0.005]

[0.006]

[0.007]

[0.005]

Crime rate, 2004 (county level)

0.009c

0.008c

   

[0.002]

  

[0.003]

Unemployment rate, 2005 (county level)

−0.005a

−0.005

   

[0.003]

  

[0.003]

Fraction of illegal immigrants (state level)

0.008c

0.008c

0.006a

0.009c

0.009c

0.006a

 

[0.003]

[0.003]

[0.003]

[0.003]

[0.003]

[0.003]

Fraction of legal immigrants (state level)

−0.002b

−0.002a

−0.001

−0.002a

−0.002a

−0.002

 

[0.001]

[0.001]

[0.001]

[0.001]

[0.001]

[0.001]

Socio-economic and ideology cont.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Pseudo R-squared

0.18

0.18

0.18

0.16

0.16

0.16

Observations

20,357

19,728

18,466

13,615

13,157

12,305

  1. Standard errors, adjusted for clustering at the state level, are shown under each marginal effect. Socio-economic and ideology controls are those included in regression 3, Table 3
  2. aSignificant at 1%;
  3. bsignificant at 5%;
  4. csignificant at 1%